Read it. And yet all the focus is on the embryonic kind.

Read it. So meetings don’t really accomplish anything, they’re all about buy-in. I knew that.

Read it. Indeed, this is a great time to be alive.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. I’m shocked — shocked, I tell you.

Read it. So much for Manhattan going under water. The North Pole ice floats; it could all melt and sea levels wouldn’t rise a bit. But the South Pole is anchored to a land mass; the more ice there, the more sea levels will drop.

Mark Steyn does a fine obituary.

Read it. Go, Fred.

Read it. Useful stuff.

Safire on language. Always worth reading.

Read it. Construction of artificial languages as a hobby has a long and distinguished history, from Quenya to Klingon.

Read it. No, I don’t know where they get this stuff.

Read it. As the face goes, so go the genes?

Read it. Wonder how much those “$100-a-pop” guys made before their business model crashed.

Read it. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Read it. The hits just keep on coming.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. This looks very promising.

Read it. Gene therapy could be big if they ever get the bugs ironed out.

Read it. Book lovers appreciate great libraries the way sports fans appreciate great stadia. In both cases the new ones are spiffy and have more amenities but the old ones are the ones with character.

Read it. Most of us have tried chess at one point or another. We then decided to grow up and get a life. We still retain an affection for books about chess and the lives of chess players, especially famous chess players, much as people like to read Stephen King novels. Tyler Cowan is one of us in that respect.

Safire on language. Always worth reading.

Read it. For those who have everything.

Wisdom. Attend.

“Pearls Before Swine” and “Agnes”. See the sidebar.

Oh, and if you see any on the list that you think suck, let me know that too. There are a couple that I consider dogs, but other readers like them. It’s not as if it costs anything to keep the link.

Read it. Some useful advice.

Peggy Noonan.

Read it. I’ve been waiting for this one. Actually, it’s pretty clever.

Read it. This is a great time to be alive.

Read it. And let that be a lesson to us all.

On the other hand, to die from “popcorn worker’s lung” ought to be worth a line or two in the paper….

Read it. Star Wars missile defense here we come.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. This stuff is getting seriously astonishing.

Read it. Part three of an economist in foodie land.

Read it. More and more useful things are becoming solar-powered.

Read it. An interesting development, potentially of great value.

Read it. Sometimes the Law of Unintended Consequences works in your favor.

A new and interesting blog, of possible interest to at least one person who reads here.

Read it. Tyler Cowan is not afraid to ask the hard questions:

What does it really mean if some part of your brain lights up?  Who really knows?

Who indeed?

Read it. Have you ever noticed that rodents get all of the good meds?

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’.

Read it. The applet itself is pretty entertaining. I like the little picture of me with a fairly accurate representation of my spare tire. Bryan’s right, though — actuarial predictions based on current data are like CBO estimates: they’re static rather than dynamic, and therefore systematically biased.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

Charlemagne.

Julius Caesar.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Ronald Reagan.

Karl Marx.

Mother Theresa.

etc.

Safire pursues the latest buzzwords into the underbrush.

Cringely always has good stuff, but I’m not sure about the applicability of this for the home; it would appear not to be cost-effective. But, of course, as we all know, what’s not cost-effective today may be dirt cheap and in everyone’s pocket in five years. So we’ll see.

I’ve long thought that we now have the technology available to us to do sort of semi-telecommuting, where a company has, instead of a lot of people in one central location, a bunch of small offices spotted around a metropolitan area (like DFW?) more central to where employees are likely to live.

Say a company has employees who live in Plano, Irving, Carrollton, and Arlington; have four small offices in each city in the little office complexes that are everywhere these days, and people just go to the nearest one as their work site.

Everybody uses e-mail and IM and conference calls these days anyway; in a high-tech company it’s just as easy to ship bytes across town as down the hall. Not only would this dramatically reduce commute times (making the employees happier and the environmentalists happier), but it would reduce the prospects of some disaster like a fire or a hurricane or a power outage killing the entire company’s productivity.

Read it. And this one is Steve’s fault, not Ma Bell’s.

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. It’s good to see the legal system stumble into some sense every now and then.

Read it. Sometimes listening to the experts is a bad thing.